25.03-8.04.2026 - Film screenings of the European Parliament's Lux Prize 2026

• Wednesday, 25th March 2026:nCHRISTY by Brendan Canty (Ireland, United Kingdom) 94'. Seventeen-year-old Christy is forced to move in with his estranged older half-brother after being thrown out of his suburban foster home. While his brother considers the arrangement temporary, Christy starts to feel at home in Cork's working-class Northside. He begins making friends and reconnecting with his roots—despite the potentially negative influence of his extended family. As his brother tries to secure a better future for him, both are confronted with tough decisions that challenge their fragile bond. Together, they must navigate their shared past and uncertain future.
• Wednesday, 1st April 2026: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT by Jafar Panahi (Iran, France, Luxembourg) 105'. What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.
• Wednesday, 8th April 2026: LOVE ME TENDER by Anna Cazenave Cambet (France) 134'. One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother and a free woman.

LUX PRIZE

The LUX Prize is a film prize awarded annually to a European-produced film by the European Parliament. It was established in 2007, fifty years after the Treaty of Rome.
The LUX Prize reflects the European Parliament's desire to support cultural and linguistic diversity, in the belief that such diversity can serve as a bridge between Europeans. The LUX Prize aspires to be an instrument to discuss Europe, its values, its contradictions and its future.
The aims of the Prize are to shed a different light on the public debate on European integration and to facilitate the circulation of European films by overcoming the language barrier that hinders the existence of a common European film market. They raise awareness of some of today's major social and political issues, such as mental health, poverty, freedom of expression, gender equality, LGBTIQ rights, to name but a few. With this in mind, the €87,000 awarded to the winning film is intended to subtitle it in all 24 official languages of the European Union and produce one film copy for each Member State.
The logo, on which the actual trophy is modelled, is a spiral of film inspired by the Tower of Babel, understood in a positive sense as a symbol of the richness of diversity, linguistic and cultural plurality of the European Union.

PAST WINNERS OF THE LUX PRICE